Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-09-12
WASHINGTON LETTER
lsPEcIAI CORRESPONDENCE ~ rHF MONITOR.
Wnshinqton. Set. .5th.

Washington. Selt. 9TH.
The simultaneous presence in this
city of such leading democrats as
Speaker Carlisle and Congressman
Mills, at this dull season. has given
rise to good deal of tariff talk.
Color is given To the report hv the
fact that the speaker and his wife
are on a prolonged visit to the pres
ident and Mrs. Cleveland at their
country place. The substance of the
tariff measure agreed on by the adj
ministration is said to be heavy re-
duction in custom duties. the remov-
al of tobacco taxes. and nOn-interfer-
ence with the general internal reve-
nue. system, as a compromise for cut
ting the tariff rates on the necessaries
of life. In this connection it is
it is somewhat significant that the
bureau of statistics has been called
upon for figures on customs du-
ties, to show where the most eff
fective reductions can be made and
how the revenues of the government
would be effected thereby.
An international commission. COM
posed of three Americans and three
Englishmen, the former to be chosen
by Secretary Bayard, will meet in
Washington ere long. to discuss the
the vexatious Canadian fisheries dis
pute, with the purpose of solving the
troublesome problem of the bOunda-
~ line between Canada and the Uni
ted States, over which there has been
controversy about one hundred
years. If this matter can be salts
factorily settled from an American
standpoint, it will naturally be re-
garded as a great diplomatic triumph
for the present administration, which
the whole country would regard with
patriotic pride.
During August government re-
ceipts were very heavy, aggregating
35,619.115. against S32, 1873, 1926 for
the same month last year-fully two
millions more than in August, 1886.
Internal revenue and miscellaneous
receipts show a corresponding excess
and the disbursements a large de-
crease comparatively. A statement
prepared by the treasury department
shows that during the month of Au-
gust there was a decrease of $751;
so in the total circulation and an in
crease of SO, POO in the total
cash in the treasury.
The civil service commission is
considering plan for a more uni |
form classification of the department |
clerks so as to include within the |
rules the clerks of lower grade-for
instance, copyists at S600-whO are
not now embraced. 1t is the COM
desire to remove the in
discrimination now existing by which
places in one department are exempt
from civil service rules while precise
" similar positions in another de-
partment come under the rules.
1t had been heralded forth by some
irresponsible newspaper correspond
ents that sweeping changes would
take place in the forces of the treas
ury and interior departments on Sept.
LIST, but, as yet, these reports have
not materialized to any considerable
extent, and there have only been a
few unimportant changes.
The city was honored last week by
a visit from an East Indian prince
a vassal of the British queen-who
was a conspicuous figure, and at
tracted general attention by his fine
presence and courtly bearing at a re-
ception rendered him by Secretary
Bayard and the foreign minister's
Prince ThakOre was very much pleas
ed with our people and country, and
declared that the one thing necessary
to complete his happiness was the
entree to the fashionable society of
our popular watering-places.
The great medical congress meets
to-day in several sections, as one, or
even two or three buildings are not
large enough to accommodate the
of physicians in attend
ance from all civilized nations, and
whose presence imparts an air Of bus
tie and animation t. the city Mt its
dullest season, for, as one walks the
streets Of the capital, strange, for
eign faces are seen in unusually large
on every side. This con-
gress will doubtless be the most in
teresting and important of the kind
ever dSStulDlbd.
The latest scheme Of public i'm
provement is the contemplated ma
tional roadway, to be called Mt. Yer
non Avenue, designed to begin at the
acqueduct bridge and thence run to
the home Of Washington. This
grand conception is both practical
and patriotic, and the idea Of con-
Meeting the tomb Of the father Of bis
country with its great capital, named
in his honor, is truly poetic, and
should be carried into effect. This,
together with the monumental bridge
to span the Potomac, would be re-